lozpayne Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 The sentence I have written is: La prochaine fois que nous irons en ville, surement le weekend prochain, je vais m’acheter du maquillage et un cadeau d’anniversaire pour mon frère qui va avoir cinq ans.To say 'for my brother who is going to be 5 years old' does 'pour mon frère qui va avoir cinq ans' make sense? I was unsure about how to structure this and whether I have used the write verbs etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anna3101 Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 Hi lozpayne,The sentence makes sense to me but I'm not a native speaker, so let's hear their feedback.Just one orthographic correction: the word "surely" goes like this -> sûrement Ania lozpayne 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linguaholic Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 On 10/28/2015 at 11:02 PM, lozpayne said: The sentence I have written is: La prochaine fois que nous irons en ville, surement le weekend prochain, je vais m’acheter du maquillage et un cadeau d’anniversaire pour mon frère qui va avoir cinq ans.To say 'for my brother who is going to be 5 years old' does 'pour mon frère qui va avoir cinq ans' make sense? I was unsure about how to structure this and whether I have used the write verbs etc.Hi LozpayneIt does make sense. The sentence is correct like this. You might want to add a 'bientôt' bevor avoir to make this sound a little bit nicer. It is not mandatory though. Another possibility would be to say: pour mon frère qui va fêter ses 5 ans.Hope that helps.regards Lingua lozpayne 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lozpayne Posted October 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 Thank you very much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linguaholic Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 On 10/29/2015 at 8:55 PM, lozpayne said: Thank you very much! You are welcome lozpayne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlagOnce Posted November 2, 2015 Report Share Posted November 2, 2015 Okay, hm, so I would add some details here:Anna above is right about her statement on sûrement. It is written with the û and not simply u, because in French, "sur" means "over" or "on" in English, like "Je m'assois sur la table" = "I sit on the table", meanwhile "sûr" is more like "confident".I think, as well, it sounds more correct to say "je m'achèterai du maquillage [...]", since you use "nous irons", instead of "je vais m'acheter". But that's not mandatory, I just feel it more correct the way I stated. Even some Frenchies does worst than that. linguaholic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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